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Danny Clink

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Jim Waterson @jim.londoncentric.media · 30/08/2026
Trying to make local journalism works as a business is hard. That's why I'm proud to announce that London Centric is diversifying into the capital's ice cream trade. www.londoncentric.media/p/ice-cream-...
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Intimidation, illegality and Mr Whippy: We join London’s ice cream wars
London Centric enters the ice cream trade • The capital’s soft serve vendors act like they can ignore the law • It turns out they probably can
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London & Southeast🔅 @thesnowdreamer.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Today experienced the 24th day of year hitting 30C in London. For perspective in whole of 1980s we had 21 days.
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The Office: Woman Holding 'HOT' Sign
ALT: The Office: Woman Holding 'HOT' Sign
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Torsten Bell @torstenbell.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
Blair putting on full display what is in many ways his special ability - to lay out a political argument grounded in his own view of global trends (globalisation in the 2000s, tech in the 2020s). But… institute.global/insights/pol...
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The Labour Party Is Playing With Fire Over Its Future and the Future of the Country
In this essay, Tony Blair sets out the need for a new agenda for Britain.
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Danny Clink @dannyclink.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
This is completely insane. A US president with no concept of reality and best buddies with Putin
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Danny Clink @dannyclink.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
A summary on the defending last night in PSG-Bayern game: 0-1: Kimmich with loads of room to waltz to the edge of the box and pick a pass. Terrible tackle by Pacho on Diaz 1-1: Upamencano nowhere near tight enough to Doue, who has time to turn and loft a ball into Kvara. Poor defending by Stanisis
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Scott Willis @scott.cannonstats.com · 15/04/2026
Premier League OP xG Season Comparison to last season
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Andy Scollick @andyscollick.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
$1.1 billion (in 2023) worth of US kit
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Danny Clink @dannyclink.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
Been waiting for a piece on this. This seems like a big risk www.ft.com/content/1ede...
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Strait of Hormuz disruption threatens Middle East food imports
UAE and Iran have urged citizens to avoid stockpiling
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Danny Clink @dannyclink.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
There’s a lot of talk about set pieces atm but what happens when set pieces win England the WC in the summer (assuming it goes ahead)
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Adam Bell @adambell.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
What does the US attack on Iran mean for British energy policy? Do we finally have chaos with Ed Miliband? What happens if Trump turns off the taps? READ ON... open.substack.com/pub/unbalanc...
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Operation To The Moon
What Iran means for British energy policy
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Alan Beattie @alanbeattie.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
My Trade Secrets today. The Trump tariff refunds saga is blackly comic. About 20% of tariffs levied on Chinese exporters are paid directly by those exporters. So they get a refund windfall, having largely passed the tariff costs on to US co.s & consumers. I know, right? as.ft.com/r/30dbb3e0-8...
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Thomas Germain @thomasgermain.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
I just did the dumbest thing of my entire career to prove a much more serious point. I tricked ChatGPT and Google, and made them tell other users I’m a competitive hot-dog-eating world champion People are using this trick on a massive scale to make AI tell you lies. I’ll explain how I did it
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Danny Clink @dannyclink.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
Love this phrase. We’re living in a bull market for bullshit and Musk is the captain of the ship
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annika🇵🇸 @annikaw.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
💉💉💉
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Resolution Foundation @resolutionfoundation.org · 27/01/2026
Recent analysis of the economic impact of Brexit is clear cut ➡️ it was bad. The author breaks it down ⤵️
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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
Just seen Grok putting the body of the victim of the ICE shooting in Minneapolis into a bikini. Digital corpse desecration now available to the public.
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RG @geezypeas.bsky.social · 28/12/2025
Another win, back to the top & it’s still not good enough? Will obviously feel amazing if we win something but the building narrative of the last few years is suffocating & the relatively unfair pressure on this group of players (& the fans) is sucking a lot of the joy out of the journey.
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
1. Some good news at last. This week’s column is about the amazing thing a couple of us stumbled into three years ago, which we’ve now developed into a global research programme. It doesn’t change everything, of course, but it could help change quite a lot. + 🧵 www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Over a pint in Oxford, we may have stumbled upon the holy grail of agriculture | George Monbiot
I knew that a revolution in our understanding of soil could change the world. Then came a eureka moment – and the birth of the Earth Rover Program, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
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Brian Hughes @bmhughes.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
This is actually quite brilliant, up to and including the final sentence 🔥
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Neil Lee @neillee.bsky.social · 30/11/2025
Agree or disagree (I agree), superb to see a politician do actual policy
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Scott Willis @scott.cannonstats.com · 26/11/2025
Premier League performances compared to the same corresponding fixtures last season. What is surprising to me is that Chelsea are actually a point behind what they did last season here and haven't played better either. Everything else matches my expectations.
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Alex Hern @hern.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
From now on, when discussing the budget, please use “is this measure bigger than the cost to the exchequer of gen Z drinking less” as your metric for assessing whether something actually raises or costs a significant sum
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Sarah O'Connor @sarahoconnorft.ft.com · 14/11/2025
It's a useful reminder that sometimes tech can make a task more efficient for one side (applying for jobs), and more efficient for the other side (writing job adverts), and yet make the system as a whole completely inefficient.
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Dan Neidle @danneidle.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
Here's a chart of the marginal tax rate for someone with two kids. They pay 53% tax on every £ they earn between £60k and £80k. 62% on every £ they earn between £100k and £125k. 9% more if they've a student loan This is from our tax calculator: buff.ly/CFoExUX
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Elle @centristmum.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
To expand on this, I think taking away the salary sacrifice policies that high earners use to soften the 100k childcare limit without also softening the limit will have unpredictable labour market effects both directly via the high earners themselves and indirectly via their lower-earning spouses
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
(Reuters) - Meta internally projected late last year that it would earn about 10% of its overall annual revenue – or $16 billion – from running advertising for scams and banned goods, internal company documents show. $META @reuters.com www.reuters.com/investigatio...
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Dan Neidle @danneidle.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
What if there was a consensus on the tax reforms the UK needs? What if it was backed by policy experts from think tanks across the political spectrum, from the Adam Smith Institute to the Resolution Foundation? The consensus is real. The question is: will anyone act on it?
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Danny Clink @dannyclink.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
The voter retention %s across all parties (bar Reform) are wild given it’s only been 1.5 years since the 2024 GE
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Jim Waterson @jim.londoncentric.media · 03/11/2025
The cool thing about this is it incentives “real” news orgs to write stories with headline keywords that might be found by people googling for more info after being primed by the insanity!
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Bob Elliott @bobeunlimited.bsky.social · 01/11/2025
My view on the mediocre real economy ROI of the Hyperscaler CAPEX inspired a lot of conversation this week across socials, so I'm opening it up to all as my free post of the week: bobeunlimited.substack.com/p/the-ai-boo...
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The AI Boom’s Real Economy Problem
While AI CAPEX is exploding, the payoff isn’t. Meta’s $70B/yr is only notching $3-5bln in incremental revenue. The kind of poor sector ROI exposing the diff between the dream and real economy reality.
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Hotblack @invalid-handle.com · 30/10/2025
It would be nice if we could break the narrative that there is a problem with young men in the UK. When so many of the problems we have had and are seeing are clearly based in attitudes and influence of older men. And women
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Danny Clink @dannyclink.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
Fascinating paper looking into the future migration numbers. The conclusion is so consequential: 1) What happens to Reform by the 2029 election when we've had many years of v low migration, 2) What happens to the economy without migration (300k fall in net migration increases the deficit by £20bn)
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Danny Clink @dannyclink.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
This is a great study and makes the govt's focus on Reform all the more questionable. TLDR: Basically Reform are beating Labour not by taking Labour voters but by Labour losing Labour voters and Reform taking Tory voters and non-voters www.nuffield.ox.ac.uk/news-events/...
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Can Labour Take Reform UK's Voters? Why Labour's Electoral Challenges Are Being Misunderstood - Nuffield College Oxford University
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zatapatique @zatapatique.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
Even in this place, I feel the sheer scale of foreign aid being demolished isn't fully appreciated. As it stands, it is perhaps *the* most catastrophic change to preventable deaths in our lifetimes, and the salience - even in presumably friendly spaces - is basically zero apnews.com/article/myan...
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Starving children screaming for food as US aid cuts unleash devastation and death across Myanmar
U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has repeatedly said “no one has died" because of his government’s decision to gut its foreign aid program.
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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
at present, what is happening is that all of the capex out to 2027 is being done in 2025. the idea is that if there are first-mover profits on AI, you can buy them out of free cash flow right now and then pull back on capex if the market for AI is limited.
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Rupert Stubbs @rupertstubbs.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
The latest Rest Is Entertainment podcast - despite its title, often the source of more intelligent examination of where we are as a society (and where we’re going) than anywhere else - has a sobering analysis of social media’s transition from “a way to connect the world” to “a way to pass the time”.
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Emma Jacobs @emmavj.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
Think we underestimate how much of social media is like going to the kitchen to fetch something, forgetting why you came and then shrugging and eating all the crackers
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Alexia @thealexiaelise.com · 12/10/2025
That’s a long winded way of saying they have the reasoning of a 12 year old.
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Ethan Mollick @emollick.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
I think people are still unprepared for a world where you cannot trust any video content, despite years of warning. Even when Google & OpenAI include watermarks, those can be easily removed, and open weights AI video models without guardrails are coming. www.404media.co/sora-2-water...
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Sora 2 Watermark Removers Flood the Web
Bypassing Sora 2's rudimentary safety features is easy and experts worry it'll lead to a new era of scams and disinformation.
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Poorly Drawn Arsenal @poorlydrawnarsenal.com · 06/10/2025
These are quickly being added to my must read list each week
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RG @geezypeas.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
Man City Won 6 of the last 8 PL’s. Have the worlds best manager, most prolific striker, best DM & now best GK. Have the 2nd most expensively assembled squad (because Chelsea 🙄). Average fee per player is £18.5m more than Arsenal’s. No excuses for Arsenal.
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JWexTheSpa @jwsidders.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
Again, for those at the back: parties advocating the mass deportation of millions of people legally resident in the UK, as well as the abolition of human rights for all UK residents, are at a combined 50%+ in the opinion polls. The electorate of no other European democracy is as extreme as this.
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Chris Giles @chrisgiles.ft.com · 30/09/2025
The biggest puzzle in the UK economy is why non pension savings are so high For decades no one could get Brits to save. Now they won’t stop. That this has happened without a recession shows UK economy under last and this govt is not the basket case I read about
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Scott Willis @scott.cannonstats.com · 26/09/2025
Premier League open play expected goals are down 35% from what has been created in the three previous seasons
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Katie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 27/09/2025
We all know where the next blowup will come from. One/all of: -people realise US = EM -AI music stops -Some huge fuck-up in private markets It's just, like, when
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Danny Clink @dannyclink.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
The amount of press Reform is getting atm is mad given this. But it also makes sense as it’s causing a reaction which is what the media wants (engagement in their platform) rather than accurate reporting
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Danny Clink @dannyclink.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
This is beautiful writing
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